Sep 20 to Nov 3, 2019: Northern Clay Center, Main Gallery 2424 Franklin Avenue East, Minneapolis, MN, 55406  |  612.339.8007  |  Opening reception: Friday, October 11, 6 – 8 pm Mario Praz, an Italian-born critic, used a Latin phrase, horror vacui, to confront the Victorian fetish of visual clutter. Since that time, more than 100 years have…

In Kansas City, You’ll Soon Be Able to Sleep in a Former Brewery by ERIN FLORIOAugust 8, 2018 Original Article [Here] It doesn’t get much more ‘Heartland’ than that. Kansas City is so hot right now. On the heels of the Queer Eye news (the Fab Five will film season three there) and the 21C opening, Aparium, one of the boldest…

by Jim Barcus | March 1, 2018 Behind the shiny corporate façade of Town Pavilion in downtown KC, a warren of former office spaces six floors above street level offers an around-the-clock creative home to 32 artists. Ranging in age from their 20s to their 60s, painters, poets, musicians, performance artists and dancers experiment, interact…

Today I started taking over the Kansas City Artist Coalition’s Instagram feed. Follow my journey through some cool galleries, artist studios, showing you some works in progress for NCECA 2016 and shows that will be up during the conference. Visit my Instagram account and click the FOLLOW button: https://www.instagram.com/melanieshermanceramics/ https://www.instagram.com/kcartistscoalition/ About the Kansas City Artist Coalition:…

Coffee / Tea Cup, green celadon, shino glaze, wood fired porcelain

This is probably the nicest review I have gotten on Etsy. I enjoyed reading this detailed description on how this customer thinks about a wood fired porcelain cup he bought. Selling these cups is always a little bittersweet for me, because there are not many left and I haven’t fired in an atmospheric kiln in…

Welcome to the new edition of Ogee Magazine Fashion, design, arts, hotels, restaurants, porcelain, perfumes; Pierre Cardin, more than any other designer, was an expert in linking his name and style to a legendary well-known brand which was applied to many items and many domains. Enjoy the winter exploring the splendour of futuristic and surprising…

Originally published in November 2015 issue of Ceramics Monthly, page 16. http://www.ceramicsmonthly.org . Copyright, The American Ceramic Society. Reprinted with permission.